Hi all, I’m in the process of trying to integrate Grafana into a data platform. I have succeeded in getting its OAuth2 client to authenticate users via the data platform and am in the process of writing a data plug-in that will pull data from it. The data platform requires that the user’s Bearer …

Maybe using the auth proxy options and the X-WEBAUTH-USER would be an easier way to solve it? https://grafana.com/blog/2015/12/07/grafana-authproxy-have-it-your-way/

Apologies for not getting back sooner, that sprint finished and I’ve been busy with other things, so the reply message got lost in the noise. (I get a lot of email traffic.) Okay, so where in those instructions does the data plug-in get configured to use the auth proxy? The instructions make no m…

Is Azure Active Directory authentication enabled for integrating with REST based data sources ?

@redhatter did you ever manage to get the data source plugin to work using the OAuth2 client which you used to authenticate the user? Basically did you ever solve the problem you were facing?

To date, the problem remains unsolved.

I am in the similar situation. We are trying to use oauth authentication but want the user bearer token to be passed to the data source plugin so that we can use it to call the application which we are trying to talk to. It seems in the oauth process, the token is just thrown after login which can e…

Right now, I’m attempting to use the routes{} method in this http://docs.grafana.org/plugins/developing/auth-for-datasources/ but am still unable to get it going. Maybe you can get it to work for you

routes method only provide fixed refresh/access token option based on the client_id, which is different from calling the datasource with unique user info. What I am proposing is to use the authenticated user id to query the end data source, rather then using a single user. This helps us identify wh…

Just wondering, 3.5 years later… Were you guys able to make it work?

OAuth2 authentication with a custom datasource plug-in

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redhatter June 13, 2018, 10:16am 5

We’re not using Azure… at all, so no, it isn’t enabled, or available to us.

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